Famous quotes containing the words queen, elizabeth, grammar and/or school:
“The Queen had one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. Off with his head! she said without even looking around.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“...we avoid hospitals because ... theyll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like Exhibit A and Exhibit B. Like, Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, shes in such good shape.... . Most of the time they dont even treat you like a person, just an object.”
—Annie Elizabeth Delany (b. 1891)
“The old saying of Buffons that style is the man himself is as near the truth as we can getbut then most men mistake grammar for style, as they mistake correct spelling for words or schooling for education.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)